Ok, a Qube 3 is on the way.
I'm going to try StrongBolt or CentOS/BQ. Is there support for the
buttons and LCD readily other than through StrongBolt?
So, here is what I would like to try to do, comments welcome. I'm
just trying to get an idea of what is reasonable and what is not so I
don't waste too much time or get frustrated.
-- Install 2 120gig drives
hmm... I'm not sure what I have kicking around in the spare parts
bin, but matched drives are not likely to be there (although I'd
likely use RAID1, still....). I want capability for RAID; and I can
get 120gig 2.5" drives for pretty cheap on sale, barring a blowout
sale of the last of 3.5" inventory somewhere (I knew I should have
bought some a few months ago). The thought of laptop drives doesn't
scare me (much) as long as the OS supports atactl (and mount has
appropriate parameters available as well) so I can set them to power
down with inactivity- I'm not convinced 2.5" drives are meant to run
all the time as in a workstation. Does this seem possible?
I think 3.5" 120gig will be hard to find reasonably, given that
400gig drives are the norm now (I assume 120gig is a limit based on
my researching, if that isn't right it will be good to know).
-- Pick StrongBolt, BQ, or Ubuntu--
- which seems to have most frequent updates/patches?
- any gotchas with yum or apt?
I have found a couple very big problems with NetBSD/
pkgsrc, but if you know what to avoid it is very nice.
-- SMTP (hopefully postfix) / sftpd/ httpd / IMAP/ POP3 / samba /
icecast / tripwire / some molecular biology tools that run under un*x.
All would be fun; main reason for this is for sftpd and httpd.
There were some helpful post about ways to provide NAS earlier, what
about others above?
-- outgoing mail would have to relay through another account, since
I'm in a dynamic IP block. How readily is that set up/ is it
directly supported by the GUI if I choose BQ/ Strongbolt? I can get
it going from Ubuntu with Postfix, or depending on how working from
the command line might break the GUI, but if I'm going with a non-
Ubuntu install the GUI might as well stay working or there is no
point to it.
-- Other common headaches? I'm not sure how many people have put BQ/
Strongbolt on the Qube 3, but it looks like there is active
development to get it documented and some recent success stories.
I'll be quiet from now on until I have hardware in hand and get
stuck- but thanks for thoughts-
Brian